The Light of Reason

December 1905
Published Monthly

Vol. VII. No. 12

Edited by James Allen

Announcements	Editor
Editorial	Editor
Brotherhood (Poem)	Earnest S. Leigh
A December Homily	James Allen
If every year we would root out one vice, we should sooner become perfect men.	Thomas à Kempis
A treasure that is laid up in a deep pit profits nothing and may easily be lost. The real treasure that is laid up through charity and piety, temperance, self-control, or deeds of merit, is hid secure and cannot pass away. It is never gained by despoiling...	Buddha
Self-Confidence	J. S. Akehurst
When we cease to look back on any experience as too hard, we have made a decided step in the wise adjustment of life.	Dresser
Do not despise you situation; in it you must act, suffer, and conquer. From every point on earth we are equally near to heaven and the Infinite.	Amiel
Faithful is he who is possessed of knowledge, seeing the way that leads to Nirvana, he who is no partisan, he who is pure and victorious, and has removed the veil from his eyes.	Buddha
Courage	Alfred W. Berry
One of the illusions is that the present hour is not the critical, decisive hour. Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the whole year. No man has learned anything rightly until he knows that every day is Doomsday.	Emerson
Self-Conquest	Thomas W. Allen
Reality (Poem)	James Allen
In all things throughout the world, the men who look for the crooked will see the crooked, and the men who look for the straight will see the straight.	Ruskin
Ideals and Opportunities	J. Reynolds
Pick out some of the best of your circumstances, and consider how eagerly you would wish for them were they not in your possession.	Marcus Aurelius
A Vision of Life (Poem)	E. C. Money
Now is the Appointed Time	John Jay Chapman
The holy man hoards not. The more he does for others, the more he owns himself. The more he gives to others, the more he acquires himself.	Lao-Tze
Happy is the solitude of the peaceful who know and behold Truth. Happy is he who stands firm by holding himself in check always. Happy is he whose every sorrow, whose every desire is...	Buddha
To be honest, to be kind; to earn a little and to spend a little less; to make on the whole one family happier for his presence; to renounce where that shall be necessary, and not to be...	Robert Louis Stevenson
The Light at Eventide	A. Wells
An Autumn Thought (Poem)	Lovel Langton
Genius and the Subjective Mind	The Phrenological Journal
Peace	George Weeds
Prime thou thy words, the thoughts control	Newman
Our Talk With Correspondents	Editor
Our Groups and Their Work	Editor
The Editor's Tour	Editor

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